Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! Fan Fiction ❯ The Rising ❯ Temporal Control ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter Five: Temporal Control

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The night's darkness seems to have consumed the streets on the eastern part of Shuggazoom, but in spite of this, some shops and nightclubs were open overnight briefly applying brightness of lights through the many windows to the outside area in case anyone was having trouble with their surroundings.

 

Chiro, Jinmay, Johan, BT, and Glenn were quickly waltzing the streets in search for another hiding spot less paying attention to the indignant lifestyles around them.

 

Momentarily, BT and Glenn almost grew fatigued from the walk, but kept their pace regardless. While doing so, they both took note of the lifestyles surrounding them at the moment.

 

Aside from the mixture of punk rock and metal music briefly amplifying from the inside of the distant nightclub, a few to many men and women, whom were mostly dressed indecently, were seen outside the available places whether smoking a single cigarette or injecting themselves with a five milligram syringe full of addictive substance to further satisfy their very pleasure.

 

BT and Glenn grew horribly disgusted by the sights and mentally wished that they would perish a gruesome death should it ever come to that.

 

"Dear God, I wish we don't turn up like them." BT muttered

 

"You said it." Glenn agreed

 

As they resumed their pace, they finally came and halted upon an old shop labeled 'Ms. Wither's Shop.'

 

As they took inspection of the place, Chiro eventually spoke.

 

"Who's Ms. Wither?"

 

"A doctor, more or less." Johan answered

 

Chiro looked to Johan in question.

 

"What do you mean?"

 

"She's also a shopkeeper."

 

Gazing forward again, Chiro nodded.

 

"Oh."

 

"Come on."

 

Without a single word, they all started to enter the place.

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(Ms. Wither's Shop - Inside)

 

As they entered, Chiro and the others, except Johan, started observing the place.

 

The inside of the place took a diner-like resemblance to it with stools assembled horizontally with a glass counter in front that with-held numerous amounts of pastries. Table lounge were at the sides next to the windows. Gumball, arcade and pinball machines positioned at the far side and including, to Chiro's dismay, a poster of the Sun Riders attached to the wall in between the two machines.

 

Mentally, Chiro had a good mind to inform the lady about his encounter with the Sun Riders, but eased off the issue while gazing behind the counter.

 

As he did, he saw a stove, a microwave positioned on the side table, and a huge freezer with varieties of drinks inside.

 

In awed silence, Chiro nodded.

 

"Huh. A shopkeeper? Sh-She's more of a diner owner."

 

Johan shrugged his shoulders in embarrassment and spoke.

 

"Oh...well, yeah."

 

"Who's there?" A voice called out

 

Without hesitation, Johan spoke.

 

"You know who it is."

 

Silence greeted the group before a woman in her mid-40s slowly started to make her presence known. As the light overshadowed her, the group took a shocking glimpse of her.

 

At forty-five years of age, at possibly a half-thin weight, she wore a garment over her clothing while her brown hair was seen in numerous tight braids. She also had an eye patch on her left eye with only her right hazel eyes exposed to the light while her pale face remains normal.

 

Chiro and the others, except Johan, who kept his stern gaze to her, were in shock by the feature.

 

"Talk about a fucking medusa." He whispered to Glenn, who snickered upon the jester.

 

During her inspection of the visitors, the woman kept her silence for a while before speaking.

 

"You know, I wasn't expecting any visitors anytime soon. But I...guess I'll make an exception."

 

She issued a curt nod of greetings to Johan.

 

"Nice to see you again, Johan."

 

Johan returned the gesture in kind.

 

"Likewise, Ms. Wither. But can we somewhat skip the introductions for a while? We're--"

 

He halted his sentence upon Ms. Wither's left raising hand.

 

Chiro took note of this by surprise. It was almost like she was reading Johan's mind at some point. She knows that they were in a hurry and she knows that they couldn't stay long.

 

She beckoned for them to follow her as they obeyed.

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(Storage Room)

 

Ms. Withers entered inside the small room along with the others and searched around the three shelves of medications on a temporal remedy for the gang's situation.

 

It took a while, but she managed to come across an orderly stack of five-milligram syringes encased with green substance inside. She took one out carefully to not slip the cap off the needle before showing it to Johan.

 

"It's very potent and highly addictive, so be delicate with this. Use only half a dosage."

 

Johan nodded as he gave her a five-dollar bill. She took it at the same time he gradually took the syringe and left her sight with the others following.

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As they exited the place, they resumed their walk through the eastern Shuggazoom streets towards the mid-city.

 

"What's in that syringe?" Chiro asked

 

"Something that can help your friend for a while."

 

Chiro nodded in response before a red magnetic projectile was suddenly discharged on his back, forcing the MT leader to arch forward in mid-air and harshly meet the ground face-first. The impact to the ground literally rendered him unconscious at the moment.

 

"Chiro!" Jinmay shouted in fearful concern

 

Turning around from Chiro's sight while the others tended to him, she looked up and saw the possessed monkeys in the air. With a determined gaze masking her face, Jinmay's transformed her body to metallic silver at the same time Otto threw two green razor saws in her direction.

 

As her eyes issued a glow of pink, Jinmay let loose an eye laser attack towards the incoming projectiles, instantly destroying them on contact.

 

With her glowing eyes fixed on the monkeys, Jinmay spoke.

 

"You guys go! Find another hiding spot; I'll know where to find you!"

 

"What about you?" Johan asked

 

"Don't worry, I know what to do! Now, go!"

 

As Johan carried the unconscious Chiro and made a run for it with BT and Glenn, Jinmay fired another eye laser attack to cancel out Sprx's magnetic projectile. She wasn't going to keep the fight up for long due to the fact that she only has one agenda in mind: Apprehend Nova!

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Blackness took over his vision as he groaned in his wake.

 

As Chiro's eyes opened, his visions grew momentarily blurred, and then came into focus to find that he was in some kind of recognizable storage area.

 

'Another storage room?' His thoughts wondered with confusion.

 

As he slowly sat up and surveyed the wide area, he saw many orderly placed small boxes on shelves. But other than that, it was nothing out of the ordinary.

 

Then, he felt a short; yet sharp pain in his back, which caused him to cringe a bit from the pain. Then, he remembered what has happened. He was shot in the back, and due to the stinging sensation of it, he had a pretty good idea who applied that shot.

 

'Nice shot, you spirit sucker.' His thoughts bitterly replied before resuming his observation.

 

He also found that the area was surrounded in silver metallic walls from the sides, the ceiling, which occupies a ventilation A/C duct, and the floors. That much he gathered due to the brief coldness of the place that got him shivering his body a bit.

 

Then, as he wrapped his arms around his body, he saw Johan, BT, and Glenn about a few feet away. They were unaware of his wake due to the fact that they were all on watch at the front door. The door was only open briefly just enough for them to look outside the room.

 

Then, Chiro noticed someone missing from the group and didn't have time to register his thoughts for he noticed Johan turning and, upon seeing his awakened form, started approaching his position in a heap of worries.

 

As Johan kneeled to the MT leader's position, Chiro groaned a bit in pain.

 

"W-where's Jin-Jinmay?" Chiro asked while briefly shivering from the coldness of the room.

 

"She's fine. She'll know where to find us. How about you? You took a hell of a hit from that magnetic shot. You okay?"

 

Chiro nodded.

 

"Yeah. It's stinging on my back, but yeah. I'm fine."

 

Johan smiled and placed a hand on Chiro's right shoulder.

 

"Good to hear. Don't worry about the A/C duct. It'll momentarily shut off."

 

Chiro nodded.

 

"Good." He said, and then started surveying the area. "What is this? Ms. Wither's storage room?"

 

Johan shook his head.

 

"No. This is a hidden storage room. We found it in the alley not far from the mid-city."

 

"Oh."

 

Then, Johan looked over to BT and Glenn.

 

"Anything, boys?" He asked

 

Without turning around, BT spoke while surveying the outside area of the hidden storage room.

 

"Nothing. I mean, it's like staring at a--"

 

Suddenly, a familiar face caused the two to issue screams of terror as they started to back up against the box shelf while Johan and Chiro took note of this.

 

"What is it?" He asked, but got no response.

 

Then, the metallic door creaked open as all that was present took sight of Jinmay entering with an unconscious, yet partially burned yellow monkey in her grasp.

 

"Relax, it's just me." She said while breathing from fatigue

 

With an instant grimace of anger from both boys, BT spoke.

 

"Fuck! Did you have to scare us like that?!"

 

"You know what? Keep that tone high and I'll do just more than that."

 

Upon the ominous comment, BT and Glenn loosened their expressions with stern gazes and grew silence while Jinmay, who noticed Chiro's awakened state, approached towards him with Nova in her grasp.

 

"Close and lock the door, you two." Johan ordered as the two boys did the ordeal.

 

Despite her heavy breathing, she kneeled next to him and Johan with anxiety in her eyes and spoke.

 

"You okay?"

 

Chiro nodded.

 

"Yeah. You?"

 

With a soft smile, Jinmay shrugged her shoulders.

 

"I'm an android, I'll live."

 

Chiro issued a smile, and then lost the smile when his gaze was placed upon the unconscious Nova.

 

Jinmay took note of this and spoke.

 

"Yeah, it took a while, but I managed to snag her."

 

Chiro issued a curt nod.

 

"Good work."

 

Then, he looked over to Johan, who momentarily had the spell book in his hands rummaging through the pages for the recommended spell.

 

"Okay, Chiro, you're going to have to move from that spot while Jinmay get the sheet from the purse and place it in that area." He instructed without looking from the book as the two teenagers nodded and did the ordeal.

 

While doing so, Johan immediately found the recommended spell needed for the task.

 

As Jinmay placed the sheet down neatly on the floor, Johan instructed Chiro to place Nova face-up onto the sheet as he gingerly did the ordeal.

 

After he was done, Johan instructed everyone to gather around Nova's unmoving body before he gave the open book to Chiro.

 

Chiro gingerly took the book before Johan spoke as the MT leader looked through the rites.

 

"There's an incantation on there that you need to chant repeatedly. It's thoroughly easy, so you'll get the hang of it. Just do it quickly before the spirit wakes up and take over again."

 

Silence, Chiro gazed him and nodded in response before carefully reading the incantation on the book. Then, as the group watched, he slowly started placing his right hand on Nova's forehead while his left hand held the entire book.

 

"Remember..." Johan stated as Chiro gazed with him with his hand on Nova's forehead. "...This isn't an extraction spell. It's just for temporal control, nothing more."

 

Chiro issued a slight nod before looking into the book. Then, he started muttering the rites from the book as the others watched.

 

Throughout the incantation, Nova's body grew unmoving at this point during the group's watch.

 

Suddenly, Nova's body flinched, then jerked harshly as the spell was taking effect while Chiro, who kept his intimidation in check, took note of it, but kept to the incantation with his hand braced on her forehead tightly to keep it in place and keep her down.

 

Instantly, Jinmay took a tight hold of Nova's right arm while Johan secured the left arm to prevent escape.

 

As Chiro constantly muttered the incantation, Nova's body was convulsing while her eyes were cringing tightly shut.

 

As BT and Glenn watched in terror, Johan and Jinmay kept their tight hold on the convulsing possessed yellow monkey.

 

The MT leader showed no signs of letting up with the repeated words as Nova instantly issued, to the group's terror, a demonic primitive screech of sheer pain from the effective spell. The screech was terrifying loud that she was even foaming at the mouth.

 

But despite all this, Chiro kept the pace up while Johan and Jinmay held her at bay. BT and Glenn embraced each other whimpering in shivering fright as the ordeal resumes.

 

Then, something unexpected happened that sent a trembling chill to Chiro, Jinmay, and the other's spine.

 

During the constant convulsion of her body, Nova's pink eyes shot open and instantly halted on the violent screeching before setting her chilling eyes on Chiro, who kept with the chanting but had a look of horror within his face upon the sight.

 

"Your attempt is flawed, boy!" She spoke in a different, yet demonic female voice, literally spitting specks of the mouthy foam in Chiro's direction. "Our Rising will commence, and when it does, you're all dead! Dead!! Starting with the pink-haired android bitch that shot me!"

 

Then, the convulsion of her body was halted as she instantly laid her head back, arched her midsection upward, cringed her eyes shut, and issued one final violent demonic screech of pain before it eventually halted at the same time the body went limb to the floor.

 

Nova's body was in a state of unconsciousness as Chiro finally relinquished his hand from her forehead and started breathing heavily before slowly closing the book.

 

Simultaneously, Jinmay and Johan relinquished their hold on Nova and grew in terrified silence at what they witnessed.

 

BT and Glenn, who were in terrified silence, slowly fainted to the floor.

 

Chiro's breathing slowed as he stayed his gaze to Nova's unconscious body before slowly looking up to Jinmay and Johan, who returned the gesture.

 

"Is it...Is it done?" He asked

 

Before either of them could speak, Nova instantly sat up and issued a slight scream in terror, which caused the others to strongly flinch in fright.

 

Afterwards, the yellow monkey, who was panting heavily, was shivering from the sudden coldness in her body as she wrapped her arms and tail around her body and wiped the noticeable foam from her mouth before gazing to her left to find Chiro, who stayed alert on her just in case.

 

"Nova?"

 

While shivering and panting, Nova loosened her terrified expression with a gaze of recognition towards the young boy.

 

"Ch-Chiro?"

 

With an instant snicker of pure happiness, Chiro's tears resurfaced in his eyes as he quickly embraced Nova in a huge hug as Johan and Jinmay smiled upon the display.

 

"Oh, Nova. Oh, thanks God."

 

Despite the relieving warmth from Chiro's body comforting her from the cold air, she grew of confusion from the predicament.

 

"Uh...Chiro, you okay?" She asked

 

Instantly releasing the embrace, Chiro, with his hands braced on both sides of her shoulders, issued a surprised, yet shocked expression on his face towards her.

 

"You...You don't remember?"

 

With her confusion intact, Nova shook her head and spoke.

 

"No. All I remember was I was in the bathroom reluctantly cleaning up Sprx's mess, then he comes in scaring me to death, and then suddenly he grabbed me around my neck almost choking the life out of me before I--"

 

Suddenly, Nova halted her statement upon a throbbing pain in her head.

 

Chiro took note of it with concern.

 

"Nova, what's--"

 

He halted as Nova cringed her eyes shut, grinded her teeth tightly, and started groaning in pain while bracing her left hand on her forehead. Instantly, Chiro and Jinmay got on alert upon the indication, but Johan held them down.

 

Chiro and Jinmay grew confused by this, but nonetheless, they obeyed and watched.

 

As Nova constantly groaned from the throbbing pain in her head, a flood of memories issued from within her mind that unfolds from the incident in the Super Robot to the incident that transpired in the outside area of Shuggazoom City.

 

But despite the pain, she could see these terrifying images as if she was there. She saw how she was possessed. She saw what she has done while the possession took place. Then, she saw the image of a dark-haired woman in dark garment issuing a devilish smirk on her face.

 

Then, all at once, the memories and the pain went full stop as Nova shot her pink eyes open with a frightful gasp escaping her mouth.

 

The look of terror in her eyes was apparent. She saw what she had done and had no control over it.

 

As Chiro and Jinmay issued anxious gazes to the yellow monkey, Nova slowly gazed both of them before tears surfaced in her eyes.

 

"Oh, God." She softly said while shaking in terror from the memories.

 

Then, she quickly embraced Chiro's bodily form while sobbing heavily in anguish.

 

"I remember. Oh, God, I remember."

 

Chiro returned the embrace with comfort as Jinmay joined in.

 

"You're okay, Nova." He softly reassured her. "Everything's gonna be okay."

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